Abstract

GARCIA PEREZ, Carmen  and  ALFONSO AGUILAR, Pedro. Epidemiological vigilance on health. AMC [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.6, pp.121-128. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: epidemiological vigilance contributes to design strategies for preventing diseases and planning options that contribute to improve the health of the population. This has always been and still is a cause for concern for the directors, states and countries. Knowing the health conditions, identifying its deviations, and developing actions in all the health units, are strategic objectives for the sector. Objective: to analyse the scientific literature related to epidemiologic vigilance for the application of this concept in the practice of Public Health in Cuba. Method: a bibliographic review was made including the search of investigations related to the theme in English and in Spanish, as well as guiding documents and lectures. As a tool, articles listed in the data bases Medline-Pubmed were used. The used term was epidemiologic relevance. Results: the reviewed bibliography coincides with the need of applying the concepts of epidemiological vigilance in the study of public health events for the making of decisions. Conclusions: by means of this bibliographic review, multiple theoretical elements to take into account when making the epidemiological vigilance were shown. These theoretical elements can be taken into consideration for selecting the scope and the objectives of the system of epidemiological vigilance to be selected for the design of strategies in Public Health.

Keywords : HEALTH STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE SERVICES; STRATEGIES; CUBA; DATA ANÁLISIS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC.

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